(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – Hearty chicken pot pie, dilly beans with watercress salad, and Sister Mary’s favorite bread pudding are just a few of the offerings at Hancock Shaker Village’s Shaker Suppers, on October 22 and 29 at 4 pm and November 5 and 26 at 4 pm. Designed for fall family gatherings, the Suppers include…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Separate, But Equal, a film documenting the history of prosperous middle-class African Americans in Greenville, Miss., in the postwar era, will be screened on Wednesday, October 19 at 7 pm at the Triplex Cinema by the Berkshire International Film Festival’s REEL Friends Film Society. The film was the winner of the…
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – In conjunction with its exhibition ‘Ice Age’ to the Digital Age: The 3D Animation Art of Blue Sky Studios, Norman Rockwell Museum will present an animation career day on Saturday, October 22, 2011, from 1 to 4 pm. The program will offer the rare opportunity to meet with staff from Blue Sky…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Berkshire Bach Society kicks off its 2011-2012 season with Venus Flytrap, a program dedicated to lyrical and botanical properties of music via the collaboration of flute and harpsichord, on Saturday, October 22, at 8 pm at the First Congregational Church in Great Barrington. Performers include Carol Wincenc, flute; Kenneth Cooper, harpsichord;…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – The thirteenth annual Williamstown Film Festival kicks off on Friday, October 21, 2011, and continues over two weekends with an exciting roster of narrative features, feature-length documentaries, special events, and two provocative programs of short films. The festival continues to innovate while staying true to its tradition of presenting a single-track program…
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Steve Vilot, the colorful owner of Sim’s Salon and Barber Shops in Great Barrington and Pittsfield, will be leading a force of hundreds of barbers who will be descending on New York City and other ‘Occupy’ communities on Monday, October 24, 2011, in a national campaign called “The Banks Need to…
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando will make a special free presentation at The Clark on Tuesday, October 18 at 6:30 pm focusing on his work on The Clark’s campus expansion program. Ando designed The Clark’s Stone Hill Center, which has quickly become an iconic part of The Clark’s campus. In this special…
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Working artists will open their studios and let the public glimpse how they live and work, as well as offer insights into their creative processes, when the 7th annual North Adams Open Studios will take place on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011, from 10 to 6 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 16, from…
(HILLSDALE, N.Y.) – On Saturday, October 15, 2011, Architecture for Art Gallery (AforA) will celebrate its first anniversary with a public reception from 6-8 pm. The event will mark the closing of The International Show, curated by Annina Nosei, featuring works by Izumi Chiaraluci of Italy, Tsibi Geva of Israel, Kocheisen and Hullmann of Germany,…
(LENOX, Mass.) — Elayne Polly Bernstein Schwartz, a patron and supporter of many Berkshire cultural organizations whose name adorns a performance center at Shakespeare & Company, where she was a board member since 1998, died this past Tuesday, October 4, 2011. A memorial service for family and friends will be held in the Elayne P.…
